Friday, November 16, 2018
Vol. 95, No.9
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Charity Poker PAGE 14 n Sock Drive PAGE 6
More fire alarms at Adelphi spark board discussion
BEST IN STATE
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
The Garden City High School Field Hockey team made history on November 11th when it beat nine time defending state champion Lakeland High School to win the New York State Championship. See pages 60-61.
Community Park Field 2 reconstruction BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At its November 15 meeting the Village Board of Trustees was set to approve a $620,818 contract with the Landtek Group, Inc. of Amityville to renovate and reconstruct Community Park Field No. 2 with a new synthetic turf infield, refurbished natural turf outfield, new dugout and LED lighting, irrigation
system upgrades and a complete underdrain system. The board’s agenda noted that this contract “is under the terms and conditions of the Nassau County Requirements Contract.” At the Garden City Recreation Commission’s meeting on September 19, the subject of Field No. 2 completing the full upgrade of playing fields at Community Park was dis-
cussed. Kevin Ocker, village department of Recreation and Parks, explained the field reconstruction. “Field No. 2 is the Little League field and it comes up as another capital project that’s been designed with specs -- basically we plan on buying and installing new components of the field. We’re taking out the See page 47
With time and manpower deployed from Garden City’s volunteer fire force to Adelphi University on a regular, non-emergency basis, the Board of Trustees considered the financial impacts and potential for many non-taxpaying entities to contribute more to the municipality. The conversation on numerous Adelphi fire calls was sparked when Trustee John Delany announced that a second fire call of the day on November 1 was headed to campus, on top of five calls from that happened at the end of October. The constant dispatching of village resources and volunteer firefighters has Board members worried, mainly because the swift response appears to be triggered by burning food, hair dryers or popcorn that students at the university were not careful about. Trustee Colleen Foley asked Fire Chief Brian Gallo about the call volume from Adelphi, which Gallo says is around 10% of calls the Garden City Fire Department receives. The chief noted that amount as many unnecessary calls. Trustee Delany and Chief Gallo explained that the procedure of relaying information from Adelphi to the GCFD has
changed to make sure security on campus alerts the fire department of the situation before the trucks with volunteers arrive. “Fortunately we are on the air and at the scene very quickly, and earlier today with the call I was monitoring the frequency. When security tells us they’ve got something I am already heading on down,” Gallo said. Trustee Mark Hyer says the response isn’t impacted because the fire department heads to the scene of incidents anyway. Trustee Delany said the issue is how much time of the fire department gets taken up, and Hyer agreed. Trustee Louis Minuto asked about what types of compensation the Village of Garden City receives from Adelphi University as there isn’t any direct correlation to the amount of fire or police activity the village (municipal) services are called in for. Mayor Daughney explained: “We receive $25,000 (as a donation) for the use of the parking lot at the village pool facility over winter, and Adelphi rents out part of the village parking lot at Nassau Boulevard,” he said. Also the village’s Recreation and Parks programs including the dance See page 47
Trojans playoff run continues with win against Calhoun PAGE 67 Veterans Day ceremony marks 100th anniversary PAGE 30